I inject for the dawn phenomenon when I have my morning coffee.@ElenaP and @eventhorizon I appreciate we are all different but I am interested in how you manage dawn phenomenon/FoTF with intermittent fasting and no breakfast?
I find my BG continues to rise in the mornings until I eat so eating as early as possible reduces this rise.
Intensive exercise (more than an amble around the shops or local park) reduces this but it is not possible every day.
Do you inject for the rise you have seen or the rise that you expect to continue?I inject for the dawn phenomenon when I have my morning coffee.
With the rise starts as soon as I have a foot on the floor. Say, I see a reading of 5 as soon as I wake up, then I nip to the loo and when I get back to the bedroom reading can be 6.6. Often I'm optimistic, and wait for the pump to add more insulin but it very rarely happens, and readings are going up. Therefore, when I go downstairs to make some coffee, I tend to add a correction doze. Sometimes correcting from the pump but more often with a pen because I find that the injecting with a pen works faster. (I have no idea why that would be.) If I do not add a correction dose, my readings can be 11-12 after black coffee.Do you inject for the rise you have seen or the rise that you expect to continue?
I have an insulin pump so my basal is increased to manage DP as it happens ad then back down to normal at around breakfast time. If I did not eat breakfast, I would need that basal increase for longer because my DP rise lasts until I eat.
Although blood sugar levels can affect vision, for example running high can cause blurred vision, there is one other thought. At the age of 58 I was told I would have to wear driving glasses and that they would be anti-glare. They certainly help! There are also wrap-round tinted glasses available for night driving.A few days ago he struggled to drive at night
Hi I have been eating 20g or lower each day since September 15th, I woke at 1am to pee which was unusual for me, tested bg at 24, so decided I needed to try and fix my erratic numbers, I haven’t eaten many carbs for years and years but decided lowish carb wasn’t enough, I would go from hypo to in the 20s and yo-yo up and down, my libre chart looked like the alps, I tried everything from timing to dosing to correcting, they all worked! But they all worked too well or not well enough so the rollercoaster continued.
I also discovered intermittent fasting, When I say discovered, I knew about it for ages but considered it bananas, I have found it life changing! Very low carb and IF now mean my numbers are flat, I still get a bump in the morning from my dawn phenom but I correct it with very little insulin, my Insulin has gone from needing around 60 units a day (levemir/novorapid) to 10, I don’t spike, some meals I don’t even bother injecting for as my basal seems to cover it, I think because my 1 or 2 units for My meal is low I don’t or can’t over or under shoot very far, the timing is less important, my libre line just wobbles.
I am very strict with both keto and IF, I never cheat, even over Christmas, I have no idea why but I find it very very easy to stick to, of course not so easy at first but now it’s a doddle, I am 53, before September I felt 63, now I feel 43, it’s incredible.
Best of luck to him and well done you for trying to help
Hi, sure, couldnt be more simple. I don’t eat before 11am or after 7pm. I am often at work and busy around 11am and/or I’m not hungry so I often won’t eat until lunchtime or even evening time so I often just eat once a day but the golden rules are 11-7 or 16:8 as it’s called.Hihow do you intermittently fast please? Could you explain your routine to me? Many thanks
Thank you for the suggestion. What are driving glasses? I bought some glasses with yellow lenses to wear over mine, as I have difficulty driving at night in country lanes due to astigmatism. The oncoming traffic is so close that the beams make it hard for me to see properly.Although blood sugar levels can affect vision, for example running high can cause blurred vision, there is one other thought. At the age of 58 I was told I would have to wear driving glasses and that they would be anti-glare. They certainly help! There are also wrap-round tinted glasses available for night driving.
"Driving glasses" in this case means that that my long-distance vision was border line and therefore would need glasses to help. In 2021 I was told I did't need them any more! Having had retinopathy and bouts of laser treatment, I can certainly say that I had blurred vision which improved. I hope your husband is similarly fortunate!Thank you for the suggestion. What are driving glasses? I bought some glasses with yellow lenses to wear over mine, as I have difficulty driving at night in country lanes due to astigmatism. The oncoming traffic is so close that the beams make it hard for me to see properly.
He had never had the same issue, though. He said he couldn't focus. It was less than ten days after laser, though, so hopefully, it wasn't permanent. We have to try again yet. Fingers crossed
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